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Re: Rhys Ifans! Welsh fans, another pronunciation pop question

From:Muke Tever <hotblack@...>
Date:Monday, November 29, 2004, 6:55
On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 07:42:50 +0100, Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> wrote:
>> > I suppose that's still nicer than the "Sod Damn" (American accent) I've >> heard. >> >> Except that "sod" for (most) Americans refers only to ground >> covered by grass, and doesn't have the additional expletive value >> that it sometimes has in Britain. That is, of course, unless they >> have watched too much BBC-America. :) > > Really? Well, if it wasn't intended as an insult/pun, one's got to wonder why > the speaker split it up like that.
Pun on "God damn" most likely. *Muke! -- website: http://frath.net/ LiveJournal: http://kohath.livejournal.com/ deviantArt: http://kohath.deviantart.com/ FrathWiki, a conlang and conculture wiki: http://wiki.frath.net/